Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-03
NEWS NOTES.

Saturdays storm ragged with such fury or
he lakes that many vessels were compelled
to seek port for safety, and quite heet OF
boats put into the harbOr at Milwaukee.
Two fishermen who went out from that CITY
before the storm arose are reported 10 nave
been drowned. The schooner stampede
was stranded off Poplar point about eight
miles southeast of South Chicago.
A deputy sheriff who went to the jail at
Birmingham, Alabama, to bring negro
named Collins to the criminal court. where
he was to be sentenced for the murder OF 9
fellow convict, found that the man had died
from hemorrbage of the lungs.
Two brothers named Wright who had es-
caped from the Jail at Maryville, Missouri,
were captured recently at Hannibal.
The strike begun by the switchmen in the
Southern Pacific yard at Houston, Texas, is
extending to other roads and to other cities
IN the state.
The high bridge over the Mississippi river
ut Dubuque will be completed this week.
general lockout among the brewers at
Milwaukee is threatened.
No radical changes have been noticed in
the condition of the crown prince OF Ger
many. Secretary Baydrd is in receipt of
courteous response from the emperor to
message of sympathy sent in the name of
the people of tn United States.
An order has been issued by United States
Circuit Judge Pardee to restrain the striking
switchmen IN the yards of the Southern
Pacific railroad company at Houston, Texas,
from interfering with the property of the
company, and from intimidating such per-
sons as apply to it for employment.
The interstate commerce commission is
engaged in hearing complaints against
number of railroads for discriminating in
favor of the Standard Oil company.
Last weeks increase in the stock of wheat
in sight in this country amounted to 1,6l7
756 bushels. The stock of corn for the same
time suffered decrease of 1863, 1888 bushels,
of oats 70, 100 bushels. The stock of wheat
corn 6,708, 49S bushels and of oats $3.50, 1888
bushels.
Jacob Schwab, well-known importer of
laces at New York, was killed Monday by
falling down the elevator shaft in his ware
house.
Five hundred coal-miners on the line of
the Shenango and Allegheny railroad, in
Pennsylvania, have struck for an increase
of cents per ton, and it is thought their
number will be increased to thousand.
The treasurer of the. Irish land league in
this country has sent 1900 as Thanks
giving gift to the nationalist agitators. It
would be well if some portion of such gifts
as this should reach the destitute people who
abound so plentifully in the Emerald Isle.
The recent interview between the car and
Bismarck has not bettered the relations be-
tween Russia and Germany. The probable
tiles are that the former country will never
rest content until she has made good her
claims in Bulgaria, or been badly whipped.
The truly great John l.. Sullivan reached
Manchester Tuesday liz his triumphal prog
ress through England. An enthusiastic
crowd encored him to his hotel.
strong stream of excellent water burst
forth suddenly from the parched ground of
level field, not far from Champaign, Hill
nois, and the people of that drouth- stricken
district are flocking to it from miles away.
The election quarrel between rival parties
among the Cherokees will probably be
referred to the attorney general of the
United States for settlement.
The Reading railroad will pass out of the
hands of the receiver on January2.
DR.. Christian Linde, vice president of the |
Wisconsin Medical association, died at his |
home in Oshkosh, Thursday, aged seventy |
nine years.
The annual report of the engineer in |
charge of the government canal at Keokuk,
Iowa, shows that this years freight traffic |
was greater than that of the preceding year,
and that the lumber business was the largest |
ever done through the canal.
The arguments in the sensational Lam
bert d Bishop case at Joliet were concluded
Thursday, and the jury retired with instruc
ti0DS IN rafurn q salad vprdicf ic |
that, whatever the outcome may be, five
more cases of a similar nature will have to
be tried in the court at Joliet and two others
n the United States court in Chic ago.
seventy insurance companies are interested
in the matter.
Local assembly No. 1907, which formerly
belonged to the Knights of Labor, and of
which the anarchist Parsons was member,
has adopted resolutions condemning his
execution and that of his brother anarchists,
and denouncing the courts and the governor.
The jury brought in verdict for the de-
PENDANTS in the case of the California
Insurance company against theJ oliet firm of
Lambert d Bishop. Attorneys for the firm
Immediately commenced suit against
Messrs. Jones, Ayers, and Whyte for
the amount of $4,000.
Cornell university has just sold a tract of
timber land in Wisconsin for $90, 600.
The letter of General Master Workman
Powderly, in which he declares that he can
not reconsider his determination not to re-
main at the head of the Knights of Labor
after the close of the present. year, is
characterized by his opponents in the order
as plea for sympathy. They say that its
publication is in reality polite move on
the part of the writer to strengthen his
chances for reelection to the Office from
which he claims to be anxious to be re-
leased.
He Returned-No Fatted Calf.
KANSAS CRY, November ga Times
special from Hannibal, Mo-, says that New i